Seattle files lawsuit against SuperSonics' attempt to move

not sure the details but caught something this morning about the old owner sueing to get the team back because the sale terms said to make a good faith attempt to stay in seatle.... from everything i have heard they have in no way satisfied those terms... so maybe an 11th hour save might be made.

not sure the details but caught something this morning about the old owner sueing to get the team back because the sale terms said to make a good faith attempt to stay in seatle.... from everything i have heard they have in no way satisfied those terms... so maybe an 11th hour save might be made.

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Heard the same thing. I think the old owner (starbucks money) doesn't want to alienate the fans as paying customers of his fancy coffee. He is simply trying to cast himself in a different light. He'll never really get to buy them back. NBA supports the move, according to the national sports pundits.

Stern and the dirtbags who bought the Sonics have lied to the fans about this at every possible opportunity. When they had the chance to do the right thing, almost every owner rubberstamped the relocation plan, including Mr. D.

This whole deal is part of plan to extort as much money as possible from taxpayers. If the league wants to be able to make a credible threat against state and local officials who hold the pursestrings, they have to pull this kind of crap at times to show they mean business.

The crooked referee problems are nothing. This is what real corruption looks like.

Oh my God. I just knew it was going to happen, but I didn't believe it until it did.This so sucks for us linwood. Now we have to carpool (with the price of gas and all) to Portland to see our Pistons. Or Sacramento? (yuck). Road trip to Golden State in Oakland? Damn, I might have to MOVE over this!

Oh my God. I just knew it was going to happen, but I didn't believe it until it did.This so sucks for us linwood. Now we have to carpool (with the price of gas and all) to Portland to see our Pistons. Or Sacramento? (yuck). Road trip to Golden State in Oakland? Damn, I might have to MOVE over this!

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Sorry, guys. This really burns my guts to see this dirtbag buy his way out of his underhandedness, and then make faux apologies for the "misunderstandings" that have ocurred over this. There were NO misunderstandings. Bennett et al's media blunders made it abundantly clear what their intention was all along.

Now Sonics fans can only hope and dream that Schultz's law team pulls some serious magic out of their hats in their lawsuit. That one is still going forward.

If you look at the results, almost every state in the country and international voters picked "Until the day I die" as their answer. Overall it received 44% of the votes. There was only ONE state in which the most popular answer (40%) was "A year or two". This state had over 1,400 voters participate in the poll.

Stern and the dirtbags who bought the Sonics have lied to the fans about this at every possible opportunity. When they had the chance to do the right thing, almost every owner rubberstamped the relocation plan, including Mr. D.

This whole deal is part of plan to extort as much money as possible from taxpayers. If the league wants to be able to make a credible threat against state and local officials who hold the pursestrings, they have to pull this kind of crap at times to show they mean business.

The crooked referee problems are nothing. This is what real corruption looks like.

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This is an awesome post and you are an awesome man. It's great to see fans call this what it is. Bad business and extortion.